furbelow

Questions about furbelow

What does furbelow mean?

furbelow means "a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim".

How many syllables are in furbelow?

furbelow has 3 syllables and divides as fur-be-low under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for furbelow?

Close synonyms include frill, flounce, ruffle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is furbelow a common word?

furbelow is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.